Another book about the overanalyzed and all too familiar Nixon
Administration? Yes. But this time two CBS television newsmen have
sliced through conventional explanations with some offbeat conclusions
about what went wrong. The most provocative: the single event that did
most to ruin Nixon was, of all things, Chappaquiddick.

Dan Rather, whose acerbic press-conference quizzing of Nixon outraged
the former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary
Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon,...